Praetorian “conservatism”
LewRockwell.Com
by William Norman Grigg
07/14/07
Under the U.S. Constitution, a document for which The Decider has expressed profane contempt, it is Congress — not the president — that decides when and against whom our nation goes to war. It has the power to de-fund the present war and to recall the troops. But those delegated powers aren’t in the Constitution as Bush understands it, which — if reduced to print — would read something like this: ‘Law consists of two lines above my signature.’ That was Saddam Hussein’s description of his power, and there is something oddly appropriate in the fact that Saddam is the only individual or institution to whom Bush was supposedly willing to defer in deciding whether to invade Iraq...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w25.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/grigg
by William Norman Grigg
07/14/07
Under the U.S. Constitution, a document for which The Decider has expressed profane contempt, it is Congress — not the president — that decides when and against whom our nation goes to war. It has the power to de-fund the present war and to recall the troops. But those delegated powers aren’t in the Constitution as Bush understands it, which — if reduced to print — would read something like this: ‘Law consists of two lines above my signature.’ That was Saddam Hussein’s description of his power, and there is something oddly appropriate in the fact that Saddam is the only individual or institution to whom Bush was supposedly willing to defer in deciding whether to invade Iraq...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w25.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/grigg
rudkla - 16. Jul, 11:55
